Hi! I am a PhD graduate interested in industry positions! Download my CV here. If you have an opening for me, please reach out at anna.m.eilertsen@gmail.com.

I completed my PhD at the University of Bergen’s department of computer science in 2021. My advisors were Dr. Anya Bagge and Prof. Gail Murphy. You can read more about my PhD here and find my thesis here.

My graduate research has focused on helping humans edit programs. In my Master’s thesis, I used runtime verification to improve the safety of refactoring tools. In my PhD, I have utilized user-oriented research methods, like interviews, surveys, and lab studies, to investigate how we can improve code editing tools. The goal of my research is to make it faster and easier for developers to change software.

News

• 2022 Started work as a Software Engineering Developer at Amazon.
• 2021 Successfully defended my dissertation Improving the Usability of Refactoring Tools for Software Change Tasks!!
• 2021 Dissertation submitted!! 🤞🤞🤞.
• 2021 Our paper “Stepwise Refactoring Tools” is published along with a presentation!
• 2021 Our paper “A Study of Refactorings During Software Change Tasks” is out!
• 2021 Our paper “Stepwise Refactoring Tools” was accepted at the NIER Track at ICMSE!
• 2021 NOKUT PhD Program Accreditation Committee
• 2021 “The Usability (or Not) of Refactoring Tools” presented at SANER 2021

Contact

• UiB: anna.eilertsen@uib.no
• Personal: anna.m.eilertsen@gmail.com
• Twitter: @annam_ei
• conf.researchr: annamariaeilertsen2

Experience

I have experience with designing and executing user studies with programmer practitioners to understand how practitioners use tools. I have mined open source repositories to create refactoring tasks and online surveys. Currently, I work on a prototype code editing/refactoring tool for IntelliJ. I have previously implemented other prototype plugins for Eclipse (a refactoring pluing) and Visual Studio Code (a transcription plugin).

Aside from research activites, I participate in initiatives for increased diversity in computer science. As an undergraduate, I started a gender initiative to retain more female students in our programming classes. I have also participated in teaching acitivites at University of Bergen for 7 years, including conducting lectures and creating tasks and exam exercises for classes of up to several houndred students. I have been an examiner for both oral and written exams, and I have supervised one Master’s student to graduation.

I have also been student volunteer, artifact reviewer, program committee member, and chair on various conferences.

Publications

• Dissertation Improving the Usability of Refactoring Tools for Software Change Tasks
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen.

• “Stepwise Refactoring Tools” Access paper here
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen, Gail C. Murphy
  in ICMSE 2021 Nier Track!

• “A Study of Refactorings During Software Change Tasks” Access paper here
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen, Gail C. Murphy
  in Journal of Software: Evolution and Process published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
  The full replication package and dataset from the study is published on Dataverse

• “The Usability (or Not) of Refactoring Tools” Access paper here
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen, Gail C. Murphy
  at SANER 2021
  Replication Package here
  PDF here

• “Predictable, Flexible or Correct: Trading off Refactoring Design Choices” Access paper here
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen
  at ICSEW’20: IWoR’20
  Presentation here
  Code examples here
  PDF here

• “Exploring API/Client co-evolution” Access paper here
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen, Anya Helene Bagge
  at WAPI 2018
  PDF here

• “Safer refactorings” Access paper here
  by Anna Maria Eilertsen, Anya Helene Bagge, Volker Stolz
  in International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, 517-531
  PDF here

• “Nerding for Newbies 2014 A Summer School in Computers & Programming” Access paper here
  by ML Bagge, AH Bagge, BN Buanes, AM Eilertsen, AK Herland, S Ivanova
  at Norsk Informatikkonferanse (NIK)
  PDF here

• “A Sage library for analysis of nonlinear binary mapping”
  by AM Eilertsen, O Kazymyrov, V Kazymyrova, M Storetvedt
  in Pre-proceedings of Central European Conference on Cryptology (CECC14), 69-78

Other interests

I get energy from

• swing dance
• hikes, camping and climbing
• boardgames